CVE-2012-1965

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-07-17
Bugzilla:
840225: CVE-2012-1965 Mozilla: feed: URLs with an innerURI inherit security context of page (MFSA 2012-55)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not properly establish the security context of a feed: URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass unspecified cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a feed:javascript: URL.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1965 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2012:1088 2012-07-17

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researchers Mario Gomes and Soroush Dalili as the original reporters of this issue.

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